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Despite their changing role, abstracts remain useful in the digital world. Highly beneficial to information professionals and researchers who work and publish in different fields, this book summarizes the most important and up-to-date theory of abstracting, as well as giving advice and examples for the practice of writing different kinds of abstracts. The book discusses the length, the functions and basic structure of abstracts, outlining a new approach to informative and indicative abstracts. The abstractors' personality, their linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge and skills are also discu

Abstracting. --- Indexers. --- Indexing. --- Abstracting --- Social Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- Abstract writing --- Précis writing --- Content analysis (Communication) --- Documentation --- Information organization --- Rhetoric --- Annotating, Book

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This book addresses information literacy, scientific literacy and academic literacy from the viewpoint of scientific research, especially in the light of the changing research landscape characterized by the emergence of Research 2.0.

Information literacy. --- Information literacy --- Libraries and students. --- Information behavior. --- Education --- Research. --- Study and teaching. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Information-seeking behavior --- Human behavior --- Libraries --- Library services to students --- Public libraries --- Students and libraries --- Students --- Literacy, Information --- Information science --- Services to students --- Media literacy.